curtail
This was the most drastic curtailment in public spending in American history.
Global warming requires a sharp curtailment in the use of fossil fuels.
The incident required the rerouting and curtailment of dozens of flights.

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Cancelling and interrupting
adjourn
adjourn to somewhere
arrest
break
break the cycle
broke
diversion
halt
in midstreamidiom
kick
kick something into touchidiom
rain
scratch
scrub
shut (something) off
suspend
suspended game
suspensive
take a break
uncancelled

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Limiting and restricting

Examples of curtailment

curtailment
In his inability to force this nameless woman to marry him, he faced a definite curtailment of his former power.
Adding intentions does not affect that basic definition but constrains the set of actions that are to count as curtailments.
These rabbis argued for a curtailment of severe punishments in the name of communal self-protection and survival.
The curtailment of the freedom of entrepreneurs was no argument.
Any such curtailment was only temporary, however, and the trade soon resumed, although on a more modest scale.
The accompanying thought, of course, is that offense cannot be the cause for the curtailment of freedoms in a liberal society.
Since many composers, particularly but not exclusively those of operas-comique, were prolific, the need for drastic curtailment sometimes arose.
The absence of autonomy implies the curtailment of freedoms of expression and assembly.
Those who had to go further afield for larger shops would have an earlier curtailment of their independence.
Curtailment of revenues aggravated this unsound fiscal situation during blockades of the port, which occurred in 1826-28, 1838-40, 1845-48 and in 1853.
Social conditions can change so much that a rule created to provide protection may degenerate into a curtailment.
While those chiefs resented colonial curtailment of their former autonomy, in the absence of effective force and facing an unprecedented problem of loss of patronage, they too, could only compromise.
Even here, the common good does not justify abrogation of all individual rights, but only their curtailment and, of these, only those that negatively affect the community.
Early curtailment of this trial precludes analysis of mature survival data in the future, as a follow-up of patients in the placebo arm of the study will not be continued.
That is, the harm produced by certain kinds of behaviour may be described as a curtailment of autonomy or a failure to respect a sense of self.
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